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“The Apartment by Ana Menéndez ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. The Helena is an art deco apartment building that has witnessed the changing face of South Miami Beach for seventy years, observing the lives housed within. Among those who have called apartment 2B home are a Cuban concert pianist who performs in a nursing home; the widow of an intelligence officer raising her young daughter alone; a man waiting on a green card marriage to run its course so that he can divorce his wife and marry his lover, all of whom live together; a Tajik building manager with a secret identity; and a troubled young refugee named Lenin. Each tenant imbues 2B with energy that will either heal or overwhelm its latest resident, Lana, a mysterious woman struggling with her own past.Examining exile, homesickness, and displacement, The Apartment asks what—in our violent and lonely century—do we owe one another? If alone we are powerless before sorrow and isolation, it is through community and the sharing of our stories that we may survive and persevere.

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Ana Menéndez’s latest novel, THE APARTMENT, takes us to Miami’s South Beach, Florida, to The Helena, the historic Art Deco apartment building rich in history, time, and character where we meet the many residents of Apartment 2B who have come and gone over seven decades.Built in 1942, many people and families have come to Miami’s South Beach to the Helena Apartment and called 2B home.First, we meet a military couple from Texas: Sophie and Jack Appleton. The new bride is enamored with this glamorous town, but he’s preoccupied with the war and abusive.In 1963, an aging Cuban concert pianist Eugenio Francisco Montes Behar grieved for a lost love and finds the man’s spirit in music. He plays for a nursing home and at weddings, living here for 11 years. Eugenio contemplates his love of music after he hears about the death of a great Cuban composer.In 1972, Sandman, a refugee in his own country, a divorced Vietnam vet with PTSD who’s badly undone by an anti-war march, then saved by hatchling sea turtles. He deals with termite-eaten furniture left from previous tenants.